Maps showing current “War Fronts” published in 1940

As tension mounted approaching the Second World War, Phyllis Pearsall, as her father had done himself before the Great War, instructed that a Map of Europe should be drawn. In a move that uncannily anticipated the progress of hostilities other ‘war maps’ followed of Scandinavia, The Low Countries, Northern France and The Mediterranean. However, by far the most in demand was the ‘Large Scale Map of the Western Front’, open here, detailing France’s Maginot Line and Germany’s Siegfried Line. These maps were an essential source of income as, under an Emergency Powers (Defence) Statutory Order, the sale or supply of any map of the United Kingdom exceeding one mile to one inch was prohibited from July 4th 1940.

Maps showing current “War Fronts” published in 1940 was last modified: July 19th, 2016 by A-Z Maps

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